Plasma Tv Heats Up Room

That s a big tv and i m sure its drawing at least a few hundred watts of power.

Plasma tv heats up room.

The plasmas where i work at do generate a fair amount of heat but nothing out of the ordinary. This is actually a common problem in equipment and computer rooms. So a 500w plasma will heat the room exactly the same as a 500w. Yeah i dont own a single plasma but my 55in toshiba lcd gets pretty hot.

Having a ceiling fan isn t going to do a whole lot. The problem is that the heat is not leaving the room. Still a bit less heat than on a pana plasma though. So its basically a psuedo space heater.

In the winter i don t even need to put the heat on because my tv makes my bedroom warm enough on it s own. It warms the dust in the air and walls of the room. Plasma tvs ranging from 42 65 inches use 90w 214w when powered on. Remember in order for the hot air to leave the room an equal amount of cooler air must enter the room.

So you need to increase the ventilation through the room. I have a 42 panasonic viera plasma tv. However i suspect most of the sets won t last that long anyway with faults scrapping the sets before screen aging makes them unuseable. Actually all light energy from the plasma or any light bulb turns to heat.

Now if you compare a 32 inch lcd tv that uses 50 watts when powered on to that of a 100 watt light bulb you d need two tvs to equal the bulb s output. Depends which model you re going for. However this problem diminished over the years due to pixel orbiting and related technologies. Plasma tvs generate more heat and use more energy than lcd tvs due to the need to light phosphors to create images.

Plasma tvs are more vulnerable to burn in of static images. The aging method of both lcd and plasma is the reduction of light producing capability so running the backlights higher or your plasma brighter will in theory reduce the life of the display. You need to put the heat somewhere else if you don t want it in your room. The thing emits a lot of heat when it s on.

As it turns out my tv uses less than 20w a figure i found pretty quickly by looking up my model on the manufacturer s.